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By MARIANNE KELLY
SHOCK at discovering that
slavery is still alive in the
21st century has prompted a
group of women to prune their
over-full wardrobes and run a
charity pop-up shop and fashion
show.
The event in Howick, dubbed
My Name Is Sparrow, is being
organised to support TEAR
Fund’s anti-traffcking work,
including Nvader’s mission to
free women and children from
sex traffcking in New Zealand
and overseas.
Nvader founder Daniel Walker
will be the guest speaker.
This year marks the start of
a partnership between Nvader
and TEAR Fund, a New Zea-
land-based Christian aid and
development organisation serv-
ing communities across Africa,
Asia and South America. It has
become the offcial fundraiser of
the Nvader operation.
One of the Howick organisers,
Karen Symons, says the event
came about after shock set in
that “in this time and age there is
still slavery”.
“It’s also sad to see the igno-
rance of the general public. If we
could get a group together [we
decided] we could make a real
difference.
“So we took what we had
(and all have) in our hands and
decided to clean out.
“We decided to sell [the con-
tents of] those fat full ward-
robes that we just can’t seem to
ft another thing into for a ‘God’
cause.”
My Name Is Sparrow includes
a pop-up shop selling quality
pre-loved clothing and acces-
sories from $10-$30, including
designer labels, and a fashion
show.
Everyone attending the fash-
ion show will receive goodie
bags containing products
donated by a number of New
Zealand companies.
A silent auction will include
bids on services, goods, art, fash-
ion-labels and a variety of sports
memorabilia.
“Our purpose in organising this
event is to make people aware of
what is happening to children in
the sex traffcking industry, and
to bring attention to the work
Nvader is doing to rescue these
children,” says Ms Symons.
Nvader is a New Zealand
registered charitable trust and
non-government organisation
(NGO).
Christchurch-based founder
Daniel Walker, who has worked
in law enforcement for 20 years,
runs a team of NZ-based Kiwi
detectives who work on the
ground rescuing young women
and children from South-East
Asian brothels and bars.
They go undercover wearing
covert recording devices, docu-
menting the transactions and
using the information to bring
the brothel and bar owners to
justice.
They also liaise and co-operate
with local police, other NGOs
and organisations which care for
the victims.
My Name is Sparrow
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is on
March 1 at Elim Church and Col-
lege, 159 Botany Road, Howick.
The pop-up shop is at 11am-
6pm in the college gymnasium
while the fashion show is at 3pm
in the church auditorium. Tick-
ets cost $20.
The silent auction runs from
7.30am until 6pm. The organis-
ers will collect pre-loved men’s,
women’s and children’s cloth-
ing from donors; phone Karen
on 0272-119-765, or Sannette on
0273-151-997.
More information is online at
www.facebook.com/pages/My-
name-is-sparrow, while detail
about Nvader can be found at
www.nvader.org.
Sex trafficking facts
More than two million wom-
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en and children are traffcked
into the global commercial sex
industry each year.
Human traffcking is the
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fastest-growing means by which
people are enslaved and the fast-
est-growing international crime,
second only to the world’s illegal
drug traffcking.
Human traffcking earns crim-
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inal networks more than US$32
billion annually and within the
next 10 years is estimated to be-
come the number one source of
income for organised crime.
Eighty per cent of those traf-
■
fcked are female and 50 per cent
are children.
Profts from one traffcked
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woman or child average about
US$250,000 yearly, money they
will never see.
Fight back
aims in on
trafficking
RESCUE MISSION: Daniel Walker runs an organisation to free women
and children from sex slavery in South-East Asia.
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"There is no
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subject on which
governments have
said so much but
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-- United States university
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Nations General Assembly,
April 3, 2012
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